| Darna Mana Hai | Saif Ali Khan, Shilpa Shetty, Sameera Reddy, Vivek Oberoi, Sohail Khan, Aftab Shivdasani, Antara Mali, Nana Patekar, Rajpal Yadav, Isha Koppikar, Sanjay Kapoor | Horror, Thriller |
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Six friends relate spooky tales to one another while stranded on a highway. Each story turns out to be scarier than the next one. But, the biggest horror strikes when some of the friends go missing.
Release date: 25 July 2003 (India)
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A good movie and well delivered thriller. If you see it alone you will realise RGV can scare you only by an apple. . .
cult montage of short psychological and horror thrillers
Very horrible movie
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Darna Mana Hai is a 2003 Indian anthology horror film.
It was considered a unique and innovative attempt by Ram Gopal Varma
and Prawaal Raman to provide Indian audiences with a horror film
which consists of six different short stories. It stars a host of
Bollywood celebrities including Saif Ali Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab ...
Darna Mana Hai (Hindi: डरना मना है, Urdu: ڈرنا منع ہے, English: Fright is Forbidden) is a 2003 Indian anthology horror film. It was considered a unique and innovative attempt by Ram Gopal Varma and Prawaal Raman
to provide Indian audiences with a horror film which consists of six
different short stories. It stars a host of Bollywood celebrities
including Saif Ali Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Shilpa Shetty, Sameera Reddy, Isha Koppikar, Nana Patekar, Sohail Khan, and more. It's basic premise is loosely inspired from the movie Campfire Tales (1997 film).
After this story, one of the friends who gets frightened goes back to the car.
After this story, a second friend in the group around the bonfire goes to the car looking for a blanket. When she leaves, the body of the first girl who left the bonfire is shown. The second girl is chased around the forest, caught and stabbed by an unseen assailant.
After this story is told, another friend in the group leaves the bonfire looking for the girls who had left them before. He reaches the car to discover Vikas killed by the knife he had in his hand. When he goes back to warn his friends he also was confronted by the mysterious attacker.
Back in real time, at the end of the fifth story, only two friends are left, as none of the five have returned. The two of them start talking about other things when a man suddenly appears, sitting at a corner. The strange man (revealed to be Sushant Singh) approaches the two and tells them that he has heard the five stories. He asks the boy out of the two friends to tell a story, who narrates the following.
A group of seven friends are travelling when their car breaks down one night. They seek shelter under a ruined shack and start telling stories to each other to kill time. After each story, one friend in the group (supposedly frightened) goes out into the forest and gets killed, one by one, until only two are left. The two friends that are left stop telling stories to each other and the killer, who is now bored, comes out to them. The killer appears to be the very same strange man that is narrating this story. He says that his only reason for the murders is fear because he cannot stand it and would kill anyone who is scared.
The man then kills the boy. The girl, Shruti (Sameera Reddy), runs into the forest as fast as she can but the killer catches up to her and stabs her. She manages to kill the man before falling unconscious.
When day breaks, Shruti awakens and walks up to the main road to find that the place is swarming with police and her friends' bodies are being taken into ambulances. Then she sees the killer standing by a car, smiling. Shruti points at the man and tries to tell the police that he is the murderer, but the police take no notice of her and appear not to hear her. The killer then points at a body, which she shockingly discovers to be her own. She realizes that she too is dead and is now a ghost, and watches their bodies being taken away with tears in her eyes. As she watches, she is joined by the ghosts of her friends and the killer.
Darna Mana Hai opened to a 90% opening in all multiplexes and recovered its cost of production in the initial three days; after that it was declared a hit.
The soundtrack features 6 songs composed by Salim-Sulaiman, with lyrics by Lalit Marathe.
Track listing:
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| डरना मना है | |
| Directed by | Prawaal Raman |
| Produced by | Ram Gopal Varma |
| Written by | Atul Sabharwal Rajnish Thakur Abbas Tyrewala |
| Starring | Saif Ali Khan Vivek Oberoi Nana Patekar Boman Irani Sanjay Kapoor Shilpa Shetty Sohail Khan Antara Mali Sameera Reddy Rajpal Yadav Aftab Shivdasani Isha Koppikar Peeya Rai Chowdhary Revathi Raghuvir Yadav Gaurav Kapur Kiku Sharda Abir Goswami |
| Music by | Salim–Sulaiman |
| Cinematography | Vishal Sinha |
| Distributed by | K Sera Sera Productions |
Release date
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25 July 2003 |
Running time
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121 minutes |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | 3.2cr |
Contents
Plot
Darna Mana Hai interweaves six stories into one film. Seven friends get stuck in the middle of a forest when their car breaks down, and all of them except Vikas find refuge in an abandoned house. To keep each other amused, they tell each other horror and supernatural stories that they have heard over a bonfire.Story 1 - On the Way
The first story revolves around a married couple, Karan (Sohail Khan) and Anjali (Antara Mali), who get stuck in the middle of a forest. After their car suddenly stops, Karan gets out to investigate the problem. After his disappearance and his constant cries for help from the desolated forest, Anjali gets out and runs into the forest to rescue him. She finds Karan's torch covered in blood and is stalked by an unseen person or supernatural being. Panicking, Anjali runs around and finds a hand reaching out of a swamp. She then becomes terrified to find that the hand is wearing a watch identical to her husband's. After failed attempts to rescue him, the hand disappears. Someone creeps up on her and as Anjali screams, it turns out to be Karan. Karan seems completely normal and fine while Anjali, whimpering, attempts to tell him that she heard him screaming. However, Karan tells her that he heard her screams from the forest when he went to retrieve water. She looks at the torch she found, which is suddenly clean of the blood it was covered in. She then hurries back to the car with Karan, telling him to get them both out of there. After quickly fixing the car problem with the water, Karan and the panicked Anjali climb into the car and drive off. After seeing Anjali's anxious and worried state, Karan puts his arm around her as she leans on him and closes her eyes. He then smirks and looks into the rearview mirror of the car, in which his reflection is not visible and Anjali seems to be leaning on nothing.After this story, one of the friends who gets frightened goes back to the car.
Story 2 - No Smoking
The second story is about a photographer, Anil (Saif Ali Khan), who checks into an inn while on his way to Mumbai. The manager and owner (Boman Irani) of the lodge is a strange and eccentric man who insists that smoking is strongly prohibited in his inn. When Anil tries to go outside for a smoke, the man restricts him, telling him about the diseases that come along with smoking. The owner then locks Anil inside the lodge and tells him that in a matter of months, he can cure his smoking addiction. The owner takes Anil to a basement of sorts and shows him piles of dead bodies, telling him that he tried to prevent them but these people would not stop smoking. After a few months, Anil is now seen working at the lodge, acting strange and eccentric himself. When a customer walks in smoking and asks him for a room, Anil tells him that smoking is strongly prohibited. When the customer displays indifference, Anil proceeds to shoot the man with a gun. The story ends with Anil and the owner sitting together, smiling and watching a commercial about the effects of smoking.After this story, a second friend in the group around the bonfire goes to the car looking for a blanket. When she leaves, the body of the first girl who left the bonfire is shown. The second girl is chased around the forest, caught and stabbed by an unseen assailant.
Story 3 - Homework
The third story is that of a school teacher (Raghubir Yadav). He confronts a student, Pramila, who is always punished for not completing her homework. One day when the teacher asks her to hold out her hand for punishment (assuming she did not do her homework), the student produces her homework instead. But her homework elicits a strange reaction from the teacher. Everyday following this, the incident repeats itself making the teacher increasingly anxious. Upon a suggestion from a coworker that she might be receiving help from parents or a tuition, the teacher calls upon Pramila's mother. She denies about helping her daughter. He then asks about the Om sign Pramila draws on every page of her homework. The mother shrugs it off which forces the teacher to drop the topic. Later, he decides to go to Pramila's house. The teacher confronts her and he explains that he once murdered his intelligent friend called Varun in jealousy and thinks Pramila is a reincarnation of his friend. He says that he drew the Om sign to prove it. He realizes he is slipping into insanity and leaves apologizing. On the way back home, he is confronted by the spirit of his childhood friend Varun, who lets him know, "You are not insane [yet]. But you will be." By the next morning, the teacher loses his sanity and he keeps on scribbling basic mathematics on the road.After this story is told, another friend in the group leaves the bonfire looking for the girls who had left them before. He reaches the car to discover Vikas killed by the knife he had in his hand. When he goes back to warn his friends he also was confronted by the mysterious attacker.
Story 4 - Apples
The fourth story focuses on a housewife (Shilpa Shetty), who goes to a market and comes across a vendor selling apples for Rs. 20 as compared to everyone else selling apples at Rs. 60. She buys the apples from the vendor (Rajpal Yadav) but his demeanour and behaviour unsettles her. When she gets home, her husband (Sanjay Kapoor) eats one of the apples and finds it very tasty. The wife worries that something might happen to him after eating the apples, as she harbours suspicions about the vendor. The next morning, when she wakes up, she is shocked to find an apple next to her instead of her husband. She runs outside and is astonished to see apples everywhere on the ground, seemingly that every person who has eaten an apple has turned into one. The vendor then appears with an evil look, offering her his last apple for free.Story 5 - Ghostly Lift
In the fifth story an elderly man named John (Nana Patekar) is standing at a graveyard. A young man in sunglasses, Amar (Vivek Oberoi), drives by and gives John a lift. Amar asks John why he was at the graveyard, as he thinks that John's wife is dead so he might have come to visit her grave. But John says that it is actually he who is dead. Amar dismisses it as a joke. After some more conversation, Amar gets exasperated by John's strange behavior. Amar then stops the car, gets out and asks John to get out. John then explains that he works for MTV Bakra (a program similar to Punk'd) and Amar is the first person not to get scared. Amar says that he was not scared because he knew beforehand that John was not a ghost. He says that he knew this because he himself is a ghost. John thinks that Amar is now trying to play a prank to get back at him. Amar then takes off his sunglasses, revealing that his eyes are hollow, before disappearing. When John sees this, he dies of shock.Back in real time, at the end of the fifth story, only two friends are left, as none of the five have returned. The two of them start talking about other things when a man suddenly appears, sitting at a corner. The strange man (revealed to be Sushant Singh) approaches the two and tells them that he has heard the five stories. He asks the boy out of the two friends to tell a story, who narrates the following.
Story 6 – Stop/Move
The sixth and final story is about a young student, Purab (Aftab Shivdasani), and his love interest, Abhilasha (Isha Koppikar). Purab contemplates suicide because Abhilasha rejects his advances and nobody else in his college likes him either. He sadly rants about not being special in front of an idol. Later, he discovers that he has developed an extraordinary ability - he can immobilize a particular person just by saying "Stop" to them. Purab uses his ability to freeze Abhilasha, and later imitates it to her by immobilizing a number of students in their college. Abhilasha, frightened of Purab's power, agrees to date him. Thereafter, Purab goes to his house and uses his power on his father on the way to his room. In his room, he, in delight of his ability, starts making plans to use his power. As he looks into the mirror, he says "Stop", which freezes him on the spot. His father finds him like that in his room, with a victorious smile frozen on his face. He is immediately rushed to the hospital but in vain.Ending
The strange man tells the two friends that it is his turn now to tell a story. He tells them a story that they are partly familiar with.A group of seven friends are travelling when their car breaks down one night. They seek shelter under a ruined shack and start telling stories to each other to kill time. After each story, one friend in the group (supposedly frightened) goes out into the forest and gets killed, one by one, until only two are left. The two friends that are left stop telling stories to each other and the killer, who is now bored, comes out to them. The killer appears to be the very same strange man that is narrating this story. He says that his only reason for the murders is fear because he cannot stand it and would kill anyone who is scared.
The man then kills the boy. The girl, Shruti (Sameera Reddy), runs into the forest as fast as she can but the killer catches up to her and stabs her. She manages to kill the man before falling unconscious.
When day breaks, Shruti awakens and walks up to the main road to find that the place is swarming with police and her friends' bodies are being taken into ambulances. Then she sees the killer standing by a car, smiling. Shruti points at the man and tries to tell the police that he is the murderer, but the police take no notice of her and appear not to hear her. The killer then points at a body, which she shockingly discovers to be her own. She realizes that she too is dead and is now a ghost, and watches their bodies being taken away with tears in her eyes. As she watches, she is joined by the ghosts of her friends and the killer.
Box office and reception
Darna Mana Hai, which opened on July 2003, was one of the most acclaimed films of that year. It received four-star ratings by many critics and was termed a path-breaking cult film. It was called a radical and daring attempt in new age cinema and received accolades for its brilliant direction execution and performances.Darna Mana Hai opened to a 90% opening in all multiplexes and recovered its cost of production in the initial three days; after that it was declared a hit.
Cast
- Sameera Reddy as Shruti
- Gaurav Kapoor as Romi
- Peeya Rai Chowdhary
- Antara Mali as Anjali
- Saif Ali Khan as Anil Manchandani
- Shilpa Shetty as Gayathri
- Vivek Oberoi as Amar
- Sohail Khan as Karan
- Sanjay Kapoor as Sanjay
- Raghuvir Yadav as Dayashankar Pandey (teacher)
- Anuj Pandit Sharma as Varun
- Revathi as Pramila's mother
- Rajpal Yadav as an Apple vendor
- Boman Irani as a hotel owner
- Nana Patekar as John Rodrigues
- Aftab Shivdasani as Purab
- Isha Koppikar as Abhilasha
- Sushant Singh as a serial-killer
- Malavika as Neha
- Rahul Singh (actor) as Dev
Crew
- Director: Prawaal Raman
- Producer: Ram Gopal Varma
- Production House: K Sera Sera, Farhat Corporation Ltd.
- Cinematography: Vishal Sinha
- Action: Allan Amin
- Art: Sunil Nigvekar
- Editor: Amit Parmar, Nipun Gupta
- Screenplay: Atul Sabharwal, Abbas Tyrewala
- Dialogue: Atul Sabharwal, Abbas Tyrewala
- Story/Writer: Atul Sabharwal, Abbas Tyrewala, Rajneesh Thakur
- Music: Salim - Sulaiman
Soundtrack
| Darna Mana Hai: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
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| Studio album by Salim-Sulaiman | |
| Released | 2003 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | min |
| Label | ZEE Records |
| Producer | Salim Suleiman |
Track listing:
- "Darna Mana Hai" (4:20) – Sunidhi Chauhan, Ninad Kamat, Naresh Kamat
- "Darna Mana Hai Remix" (4:15) – Sunidhi Chauhan, Ninad Kamat, Naresh Kamat
- "Homework" (5:11) – Clinton Cerejo, Aparna Jha, Vijay
- "Jo Dar Gaya Voh Mar Gaya" (4:45) – Sunidhi Chauhan, Salim Merchant, Naresh Kamat
- "No Smoking" (4:56) – Ravi Khote
- "Stop" (4:27) – Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan
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Rating: 6.3/10 - 2,399 votes
The stories include: A husband trying to scare his wife; a man stuck at a creepy "
Seven friends, after their car breaks down in the
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Storyline
Six city students take refuge in deserted ruins when stranded on a
highway, and start telling each other scary stories to keep amused. The
stories include: A husband trying to scare his wife; a man stuck at a
creepy "healthy hotel"; a school teacher spooked by a child's homework; a
housewife scared of apples; a bizarre lift on a freeway; and a college
kid with an unusual power. Unlike the usual Indian horror film, this
does not resort to sound effects and visuals for thrills. Each sketch
has its moments, though a couple of them could have been brilliant with
small script changes, and a resistance to oversimplifying. Most of the
actors do decent jobs, especially Raghubir Yadav as the freaked-out
school-teacher. Written by
Joyojeet Pal
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Written by Lalit Marathe
Composed by Salim Merchant and Salim-Sulaiman
Performed by Sunidhi Chauhan and Ninad Kamat
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It was the debut film of Kiku Shradha ,Abhir Goswami & Gaurav Kapur. See more »Goofs
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Darna Mana HaiWritten by Lalit Marathe
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Performed by Sunidhi Chauhan and Ninad Kamat
Courtesy of Zee Music
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Bravo for the subject, The some of the mini stories were really bad picked?
I was excited to watch
the movie because when i read the names of the actors being used in the
movie, i'm a big fan of Vivek oberoi and Nana Patekar, i like Saif Ali
Khan's spotanuity, so i thought it will be a great experience all of
these actors act together, so i was disappointed as soon as the first
story started, but i admire that an indian films are turning into
Hollywood style flicks without songs and subject that could be different
from other movies. This movie cannot be compared with any other indian
horror or thriller film. it stands by its own, but some stories were
hard to believe and very comical at points. You cannot scare somebody if
the story looses its believable factor. Like the first story was
alright, it was scary with a twist. So was the School teacher one, it
was very good it had a mystery element to it. Vivek oberoi's and Nana
Patekar's story was scary and funny at the same time. it was well
written i was just upset with their story's length. I thought they would
have more of a role in the movie. Other stories were just a joke, The
apple one, The cigarrete one and the stupidest of all was the Aftab
shivadasani with supernatural powers one. It was hilarious more then it
was scary. Scary was the seventh story the real one, with the six
friends. At the end the movie had an issue to address that only way to
get rid of your fears is to die. The ultimate fear is the death. This
point was addressed very nicely. The movie would have been nicer if the
stories would have chosen carefully. It would have been bit more scary.
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